Women of D-Day: while men stormed the beaches, women worked as codebreakers, ship plotters, radar operators
On D-Day, as soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, hundreds of thousands of women served as code breakers, shipping planners, radar operators and cartographers. During World War II, over 1.1 million women served in the Western Allied armies, of which 640,000 served in the British Army. In total, around seven million British women served their […]
Cambridge college unmasks alumnae who were Bletchley Park codebreakers | Second world war
They worked day and night during World War II, deciphering Nazi messages, cracking the Enigma code, and analyzing top-secret military documents. But until now, it was unknown how many of the brave female codebreakers who worked at Bletchley Park studied there, forming a hidden network of scholars who secretly changed the course of history. There […]